Programming Tools
Every player in Faerie MUD? can potentially become a creator. This will require a rich toolset to keep much of the complexity hidden from the new coder, while not restricting more experienced programmers from using it.
The following are a few proposed programming tools for world editing/creation in the FaerieMUD system:
- MetaclassEditor - an editor for game metaclasses (If I have a login on this, does that make me a Metadeity? Or a god god?)
- ObjectEditor - an interface to any game object which will allow immortals to view or modify the details of a game object from a web browser
- AdminInterface? - a suite of tools for administering a server
Some of the InGameInterfaces? which will allow users to contribute creative material to FaerieMUD as they play are:
- The PuppetMasters? Guild -- makers of magical puppets capable of performing simple plays for the entertainment of small children and Orcs.
- Stories and Quests? -- an important kind of object which can be created simply by telling a story to an NPC, assuming the story is interesting enough for the NPC to "remember."
- Character Generation -- an obvious one.
- QuestMasters? -- another guild.
- Cartographers? -- yet another guild.
- Most of the guilds related to The Forge.
- GuildMasters? -- those who form or control guilds, according to the rules and oaths of the guild itself.
— Ged The Greys Hain - 18 May 2000
